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Round Valley

Ghost town · Plumas County, California

Greenville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1950, 1:62,500)
Greenville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1950, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Round Valley is a ghost town in Plumas County, California. It is one of 23 former communities in Plumas County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 11th among the 58 California counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Round Valley as a historical populated place on the Crescent Mills topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 40.1157° N, 120.9677° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCrescent Mills
Elevation4,505 ft
Nearest living townGreenville, CA
Distance to it1.7 miles
GNIS feature ID1666190
Coordinates40.11572, -120.96773

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Round Valley today, aerial view
Greenville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1950, 1:62,500)

Left: Greenville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1950, 1:62,500), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Round Valley is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Greenville, CA (population 387), about 1.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 4,505 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Round Valley?

Round Valley is in Plumas County, California, at 40.1157, -120.9677.

How many ghost towns are in Plumas County?

Plumas County, California has 23 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.